Hair braids, baby dolls, make-believe and fairytales, being a girl is everything.
A world of fantasising about what it’s like to grow up into a woman, follow our dreams and have the freedom as an adult.
A world full of possibilities. A world of wonder.
So much to see. So much to aspire to.
The magic of girlhood is woven in my heart.
I remember playing Barbies and Bratz with my twin sister, singing our hearts out to Hannah Montana, getting excited about kid makeup, and riding our bikes around the neighbourhood. Being a girl was our power, our joy, and anything we wanted it to be.
Girlhood. What does that word mean to you?
Girlhood is different for every girl, yet it is the same experience. It’s giggling over your first crush, spending hours deciding what to wear, singing your heart out to your favourite songs, kitchen concerts with your besties and loving them so hard you could cry. Girlhood is loyalty, fierceness and pure wonder. It’s wanting to be every girl you see and learning to love yourself.
Girlhood is questioning every little thing and also loving the small moments. It’s the details and little snippets, not the overall picture, that we remember. The times as we grow, the deep conversations, the tears we shed and the laughter. Girlhood isn’t only big achievements but the in-between when life feels so good you can’t describe it, only appreciate it.
Girlhood means loving hard, thinking big and dreaming.
Growing up, girls are put in a box of what they are ‘supposed’ to be: feminine, gentle, a caregiver, and quiet. We have to look after everyone around us and love everything and everyone apart from ourselves. Society wants us to hate who we are, our agenda, and all the little things that make us girls.
We’re told we’re never good enough and to be a certain way: skinny, tall, quiet, in the background, submissive. Words push us to the side and quieten our loud and brilliant thoughts, emotions and stories.
Being a girl is about being proud of our gender. Singing loudly, speaking up for what we believe in and loving so hard, we can’t feel the patriarchal stamp on our dreams. We deserve to be seen and heard and be whoever we want.
You have a voice and can thrive and succeed in living authentically. You deserve to be free, think freely and love freely.
Every girl is different, but every girl is the same. Girlhood is a mutual experience that makes us who we are.
Who are you? What’s your thing?
Writing and words are a big part of my girlhood. A book is the only place I felt seen and heard. The world of a story accepts me for who I am. I could spend hours in a fictional world, learning about other girls' stories and wanting to be part of their imaginary world.
Being a twin made my girlhood experience electric. I always had someone to do everything with, to play, cry and laugh with. I was never alone in being a girl. With a world that was so loud telling me what to do, I had my sister to stay by my side and fight the noises.
We’d stay in our shared bedroom for hours, laughing over made-up stories, playing on our matching DS games, and creating imaginative worlds only we knew the secrets of. We didn’t realise it, but our bond was getting stronger and stronger—a bond that would carry us through life, knowing we always had each other. There’s a security in girlhood that doesn’t need to be described; it just exists.
Girlhood is about learning who you are in a world that tells you to step away from your authentic self.
I’m an ordinary girl who fangirls over her favourite boyband and celebrities. A girl who loves too hard, is over-pleasing to everyone around her and feels everything deeply. I’m overemotional, overthink everything and want to make a difference in the world. I want each person to feel the love I have to give. I’m kind, open-minded and a massive dreamer.
I’ve always had my head in the clouds, dreaming of bigger and better things. I knew I would make a difference and be a writer. Stories and books helped me accept who I was, and I wanted to make that difference for others, for my writing to resonate and help them.
I want to help others feel loved and valued, treasured in some way, knowing they are important.
As a girl, we hear many negative things about our gender to fear and worry about the world and the oppression we face. But there’s something powerful about owning girlhood, owning the wonders of being a woman.
I love being a girl. I love to know what it means and represents. I love the conversations I have with other girls about how our experiences are the same but different. I love how we can relate, cry, and, above all, support each other.
Girlhood is therapy. Girlhood helps every girl know and understand they deserve to be loved.
I’m a girl in love with the world, myself and everything I aspire to be.
Fierce. Loud. Proud. Lovable. Kind. Content.
Being a girl is power.
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What a beautifully written post about girlhood! I agree, when we're growing up, society attempted to shape us into this gentle, subdued kind of person. It's so good that women have a huge voice and not afraid to say what we think!
ReplyDeleteLucy Mary
Great post! Love this. Girlhood is all-encompassing, and I love how it is a shared experience for everyone. So many wonderful details, memories, and moments included. Thanks for sharing!
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